So right in the midst of having to work tons of pictures... Adobe Bridge, the file management feature for Photoshop, stopped working!

The filmstrips won't align, the folders won't load, and I keep getting the "adobe bridge has stopped working" message.

I go to the Adobe website and they say "we no longer support Adobe Bridge for CS3 - but we will fix your problem if you upgrade to CS4"

Ok wait a second... 15 months ago I buy CS3, the full EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLAR version, and less than two years later they no longer support it?

What the hell has happened, this used to be a good company.

I searched the net for remedies and mostly found angry Adobe users cursing the problem and the company and swearing vengeance, not a good sign!

I did a complete re-install but nothing changed. Wow! So I am starting to wonder if Adobe just cut us all off so we would have to upgrade to CS4? Seriously... I am not paying two hundred dollars every year to upgrade. I went from Photoshop 6.0 to CS3 -- I like using what I am used to! To be honest I think 6.0 was better... it ran so much smoother than CS3 which has more tools but behaves like a buggy lumbering pile of poo. They do that and then they want me to pay for another upgrade? No thank you.

So right now my file editing has slowed down. I am having to use Picasa to manage my files - which honestly is much better than Bridge, but the big thing is that I cannot directly open the file into CS3 from Picasa. So I have to write the file number and the folder number down on a piece of paper, at out of Picasa then go to Photoshop and search for the file to open it. Really a PIA!